Impossible to stop AVPlayer

Question

I am currently testing the use of AVPlayer with audio streaming url, using Swift. There are play() and pause() methods, but the problem is that, pausing onl

Answer 1

From this post I found the best solution to completely stop AVPlayer before you leave or start a new player:

videoPlayer.replaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem(nil)

[Update] For SWIFT 3:

player.replaceCurrentItem(with: nil)